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Missed diagnosis of unruptured, huge left ventricular pseudoaneurysm
Serdar Akgun1, Nurgül Keser, Tekin Yildirim
1Maltepe University School of Medicine Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul, Turkey.
Echocardiography (Mount Kisco, N.Y.)
|July 10, 2003
Abstract:
We report a case of a huge left ventricular pseudoaneurysm following myocardial infarction. Early after myocardial infarction, the pseudoaneurysm was missed during the cardiac examination. The patient underwent coronary bypass surgery with endoaneurysmorraphy of the pseudoaneurysm, and made a satisfactory recovery.